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- Sequencing the dead to save the living: Reviving ancient genomes of long-extinct creatures offers a window into past extinctions—and may help prevent future die outs
- No gene is an island: Even as biologists catalog the discrete parts of life forms, an emerging picture reveals that life’s functions arise from interconnectedness
- The decider: Informing the debate over the reality of ‘free will’ requires learning something about the lateral habenula
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Tasmanian tigers were hunted to extinction in the wild in the early 1900s, and the last tiger, or thylacine, died in captivity in 1936. But now scientists have resurrected a bit of the thylacine's DNA in a mouse.
Credit: Tasmanian Museum and Art GalleryFound in: Genes & Cells, Life and Paleobiology
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